(Male Barrow’s Goldeneye, photographed near Jack Block Park by Mark Wangerin – click image for larger view)

Good morning. From the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar, options for this last day of January:

HIAWATHA PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The annual benefit for Hiawatha Community Center‘s scholarship fund is this morning – pancakes and more, 8 am-noon, as previewed here.

WEST SEATTLE FARMERS’ MARKET: See what’s fresh and local today, 10 am-2 pm in The Junction. (California SW between Oregon and Alaska)

SCHOOL OPEN HOUSES: All three of our area’s Catholic schools have open houses today – Our Lady of Guadalupe (35th/Myrtle) 9 am-1 pm (info), Holy Family Bilingual School (20th/Roxbury) 11 am-1 pm (info); Holy Rosary 11:30 am-1:30 pm (info).

WEST SEATTLE HISTORY: Enjoy and learn about it noon-4 pm at the Southwest Seattle Historical Society’s Log House Museum, just a block inland from Alki Beach. (61st SW/SW Stevens)

OPERA PREVIEW: Look ahead to the Seattle Opera‘s “Mary Stuart” with a free lecture 2 pm today at the West Seattle (Admiral) Library; details in our calendar listing. (2306 42nd SW)

FOLK/ROCK MUSIC … with singer/songwriter Andy Brucia at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), 3-5 pm. (5612 California SW)

ALL-AGES OPEN MIC: Sign up at 3, music at 4, all ages, at The Skylark, with full 16-track recordings of your performance available for purchase. Info here. (3803 Delridge Way SW)

GO BACK IN TIME: 7:30 pm at Kenyon Hall – itself historic – you can go back to a century, as “theatre organist extraordinaire Dennis James and ebullient songsters Connie Corrick and Hugh Hastings return for a new three-show monthly series celebrating 1916 in sight and sound. January’s show features Charlie Chaplin in three of his greatest short comedy films from 1916—the Mutual Studios classics “Behind the Screen,” “The Pawn Shop,” and “The Rink,” artfully illuminated by Dennis at the Kenyon Hall Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ.” (7904 35th SW)

EVEN MORE … on our complete calendar.